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June 10, 2002 Issue

"The problem in a former smoker is some nasty cell
wandering around that can cause
trouble years later. If I can target that
son of a gun, maybe I can win!"
-- Dr. Nasser Altorki, page 41

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FEATURES
Best Doctors 2002
It's a counterintuitive law of medical progress: The more new treatments, new
technologies, and breakthrough drugs, the harder it is to choose a doctor.
The people who know what's hype and what's not, and who's pursuing the most
promising therapies, are physicians themselves. And so, for our annual Best
Doctors issue, we've asked thousands of local doctors to identify the best
of their peers-from psychiatrists to sports doctors to surgeons in just
about any specialty you can name. PLUS: Profiles of ten doctors who
exemplify the best of New York medicine.

Concrete Rumble By Ralph Gardner Jr.BY RALPH GARDNER JR.
The Hudson River and the land around it are central to the American vision of
natural beauty-not to mention an increasingly popular weekend destination
for New Yorkers who've OD'd on the Hamptons. But now a plan to construct a
gigantic cement plant,
with two miles of conveyor belts and a 400-foot smokestack, has disrupted
this bucolic idyll, pitting largely blue-collar locals against wealthy New
Yorkers like Annie Leibovitz, Ruth Reichl, Ashton Hawkins, and Patti Smith,
and raising an age-old question: Who
owns the view?